{"id":7991,"date":"2022-03-03T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7991"},"modified":"2022-03-03T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T06:00:00","slug":"a-change-of-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-change-of-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"A Change of Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Detroit Times, March 3, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Berton Braley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019d read all the dope on attending to work
    And toiling to suit your employer;
He knew that to loaf or to laze or to shirk
    Was quite an ambition destroyer;
So he plunged into work with a zest and a vim
    And he did more than double his share of it;
He needed a raise, for his wages were slim,
    But he knew that the boss would take care of it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For hadn\u2019t the books made this simple fact plain\u2014
    That people would recognize talent;
That if you would work with your might and your main
    The boss, with a manner most gallant,
Would give you a raise, though you said not a word,
    To show you were worthy of credit;
So he toiled and he sweated, but nothing occurred
    And life didn\u2019t go as he\u2019d read it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The boss was aware of his merit, all right,
    But he said, \u201cWhy the deuce should I raise him
So long as he\u2019s willing to work day and night
    For what his position now pays him?\u201d
But weary with waiting, the worker grew wise;
    He said to himself, \u201cWhy, dod rot it!
These books on success are a bundle of lies\u201d\u2014
    So he struck for a raise\u2014and he got it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Detroit Times, March 3, 1914. By Berton Braley. He\u2019d read all the dope on attending to work    And toiling to suit your employer;He knew that to loaf or to laze or to shirk    Was quite an ambition destroyer;So he plunged into work with a zest and a vim    And he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-detroit-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}